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Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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> This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

does anyone know where these "detailed root cause analysis" reports are shared? is there maybe an archive?

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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post #47

In moments like this, it's useful to have a "break glass" mode in your CI tooling: a way to run a production CI pipeline from scratch, when your production CI infrastructure is down. Otherwise, if your CI downtime coincides with other production downtime, you might find yourself with a "bricked" platform. I've seen it happen and it is not fun. It can be a pain to setup a break-glass, especially if you have a lot of l…

A while back I think I heard you on a podcast describing these pain points. Experienced them myself; sounded like a compelling solution. I remember Dagger docs being all about AI a year or two ago, and frankly it put me off, but that seems to have gone again. Is your focus back to CI?

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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post #9

I swear this is my fault. I can go weeks without doing infra work. Github does fine, I don't see any hiccups, status page is all green. But the day comes that I need to tweak a deploy flow, or update our testing infra and about halfway through the task I take the whole thing down. It's gotten to the point where when there's an outage I'm the first person people ask what I'm doing...and it's pretty dang consistent....

You should be promoted to SRE - Schrodinger Reliability Engineer

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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post #47

In moments like this, it's useful to have a "break glass" mode in your CI tooling: a way to run a production CI pipeline from scratch, when your production CI infrastructure is down. Otherwise, if your CI downtime coincides with other production downtime, you might find yourself with a "bricked" platform. I've seen it happen and it is not fun. It can be a pain to setup a break-glass, especially if you have a lot of l…

A while back I think I heard you on a podcast describing these pain points. Experienced them myself; sounded like a compelling solution. I remember Dagger docs being all about AI a year or two ago, and frankly it put me off, but that seems to have gone again. Is your focus back to CI?

Yes, we are re-focused on CI. We heard loud and clear that we should pick a lane: either a runtime for AI agents, or deterministic CI. We pick CI.

Ironically, this makes Dagger even more relevant in the age of coding agents: the bottleneck increasingly is not the ability to generate code, but to reliably test it end-to-end. So the more we all rely on coding agents to produce code, the more we will need a deterministic testing layer we can trust. That's what Dagger aspires to be.

For reference, a few other HN threads where we discussed this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734553

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268265

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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The appearance of a thread here is so consistent that HN needs a black-bar style indicator for GH outages that points to it.

At this point I am thinking of creating a 0 days until github outage website similar to how we had the running joke of 0 days until JS framework dropped.

Too slow: https://github-incidents.pages.dev/

Re: GitHub having issues [resolved]

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post #9

I swear this is my fault. I can go weeks without doing infra work. Github does fine, I don't see any hiccups, status page is all green. But the day comes that I need to tweak a deploy flow, or update our testing infra and about halfway through the task I take the whole thing down. It's gotten to the point where when there's an outage I'm the first person people ask what I'm doing...and it's pretty dang consistent....

Surely this would earn you loads of internet street cred.
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